- Add React.memo to CameraSelfie to prevent unnecessary re-renders
- Memoize callbacks in CameraSelfie
- Track previous open/facingMode state in RobustCamera to detect actual changes
- Add streamAttachedRef to prevent duplicate stream attachments
- Fix useEffect dependencies to prevent cleanup on parent re-renders
- Ensure camera only initializes on actual dialog open (not parent re-render)
- Consolidate stream attachment into single useEffect
- Remove race conditions from multiple competing effects
- Add proper cleanup with video element reset
- Simplify state management using single stream state
- Add isMountedRef to prevent state updates after unmount
- Improve error handling with specific error messages
- Add canvas flip correction for front camera mirror effect
- Use explicit MIME type for MediaRecorder (audio/webm;codecs=opus)
- Add error handling for audio playback
- Copy chunks before creating blob to prevent race conditions
- Add key prop to audio elements for proper re-rendering
- Add TextToSpeechButton to Outline, Takeaways, and Guest tabs in analysis phase
- Add help icon with tooltip to Research Queries explaining the workflow
- Change Run Research button to show 'Next: Select Query' when disabled
- Add hint text 'Select a query to continue' when no queries selected
- Make header stack responsive with column layout on mobile
- Add responsive breakpoints for tab sizes and padding
- Fix image preview max widths for mobile screens
- Add responsive font sizes for info boxes
- Adjust container padding for smaller screens
- Fix icon sizes for mobile devices
- Remove Research Queries section from AnalysisPanel.tsx
- Keep QuerySelection component as single source for research queries
- Remove unused props (onRunResearch, isResearchRunning, selectedQueries, etc.)
- Add pandas to requirements-podcast.txt for usage tracking
- Fix LLM prompt to return plain strings instead of objects for enhanced_ideas
- Add object-to-string normalization for LLM responses that return objects
- Skip bible generation in podcast-only mode (onboarding disabled)
- Skip alerts polling in AlertsBadge when in podcast-only demo mode
- AlertsBadge: Skip agent alerts fetch in podcast mode
- UserBadge: Skip system status fetch in podcast mode
- SystemStatusIndicator: Skip monitoring stats in podcast mode
This prevents 404 errors when frontend calls endpoints that don't exist in podcast-only demo mode.
- Avatar images now use full available width (max 280px, responsive)
- Auto-collapse info banner after 8 seconds
- Add 'Show tips' link to expand collapsed info
- Fix image sizing to use contain instead of cover for better visibility
- canSubmit now checks for avatar presence (uploaded, brand, or generated)
- Checks avatarFile, avatarUrl, avatarPreview, brandAvatarFromDb, brandAvatarBlobUrl
- Updated tooltip to reflect new requirement
Backend:
- Remove all legacy env var fallbacks (ALWRITY_FEATURE_PROFILE, ALWRITY_ROUTER_PROFILE, etc)
- Remove get_active_profile() from start_alwrity_backend.py
- Remove _env_flag_enabled() from app.py
- Use ALWRITY_ENABLED_FEATURES as single source of truth
Frontend:
- demoMode.ts now uses only REACT_APP_ENABLED_FEATURES
- Removed all legacy fallback keys (app_mode, demo_mode, podcast_only_demo_mode)
Usage:
ALWRITY_ENABLED_FEATURES=podcast # Podcast only
ALWRITY_ENABLED_FEATURES=all # All features (default)
- Remove fallback to ALWRITY_FEATURE_PROFILE, ALWRITY_ROUTER_PROFILE
- Primary env var is now ALWRITY_ENABLED_FEATURES (backend)
- Primary env var is REACT_APP_ENABLED_FEATURES (frontend)
- Add deprecation comments to all get_enabled_features() functions
- Update demoMode.ts with clear deprecation notes
Usage:
ALWRITY_ENABLED_FEATURES=podcast # Podcast only
ALWRITY_ENABLED_FEATURES=all # All features (default)
Backend:
- Add get_enabled_features() returning set from ALWRITY_ENABLED_FEATURES
- Update router registry to use 'features' instead of 'profiles'
- Support feature names: podcast, blog-writer, youtube, story-writer, etc
- Update bootstrap gating to use enabled features
- Update PODCAST_ONLY_DEMO_MODE to check new flag first
- Add backwards compatibility with legacy env vars
Frontend:
- Update demoMode.ts to use REACT_APP_ENABLED_FEATURES
- Add getEnabledFeatures() and isFeatureEnabled() utilities
Usage:
ALWRITY_ENABLED_FEATURES=all # All features (default)
ALWRITY_ENABLED_FEATURES=podcast # Podcast only
ALWRITY_ENABLED_FEATURES=podcast,core # Podcast + core features
- Improve error message handling for common API failures
- Add announcementSeverity state for error/success styling
- Display errors with red alert styling in podcast dashboard
- Skip onboarding in demo mode, redirect to podcast-maker
- Demo mode checks localStorage and env vars
- Remove mock subscription - use real subscription flow
- Add demoMode utility for consistent demo mode detection
- Skip onboarding API calls in OnboardingContext when in demo mode
- Redirect to /podcast-maker instead of /onboarding in demo mode
- Patch pricing redirect to route to podcast-maker instead of onboarding
- Allow all plan tiers in demo mode (remove alpha restriction)
- Add Stripe mode warning in demo when key is missing
- Add startup router mount assertions for subscription and podcast
- Add smoke test script for demo mode validation
- Add dedicated image_generation module with statistical extraction
- Support 16 industry domains with visual concept detection
- Add model-specific guidance for Ideogram, FLUX, GLM, Qwen, MAI
- Extract statistics, rankings, comparisons, and trends automatically
- Refactor backend/api/images.py to use new module
